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1Yaakov ben Chaim Tzvi = "My previous comment is not meant to deride the New Testament, it is merely an explanation that when we say that something has an "eyewitness account", unless we know the eyewitness, the testimony would not be acceptable for use. If someone is being convicted of a criminal charge, we can't say that "Johnny" saw the crime and then not know who Johnny was. Johnny needs to be a person who is recognizable to the people who are prosecuting the case. So too, with respect to proof of God, we can not take someone's word for it written 2,000 years ago and then claim they are eyewitness accounts. They may be, but they also may not be. Faith is something that we choose to believe for personal reasons, not because we have absolute proof as no religious belief in existence can ever stand up to that level of scrutiny."

2Yaakov ben Chaim Tzvi = "The New Testament proclaims that those not of God can Prophecy and perform miracles: Matthew 7:22 - Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’Miracles and wonders were commonplace in ancient Egypt. The scriptures records numerous places where evil men performed signs and wonders in an effort to prove they were more powerful than God. If miracles were the test of "truth", then we have groups today which can perform witchcraft and magic which is a much more powerful sign than what any Church or Synagogue can perform today. This, at least in my mind, is not a powerful statement of why to believe in the New Testament."

3Yaakov ben Chaim Tzvi = "Marshall Applewhite convinced a hundred people to murder themselves in a suicide pact based on a claim that aliens told him to do that. David Koresh claimed that he was a prophet and the Messiah and convinced 75 men, women and children to hole themselves up in Waco Texas only to be murdered after a 51 day standoff.Sun Myung Moon, claimed that Jesus cam to him at 16 and asked him to finish the work he started by creating the Unification Church. Today the church has hundreds of thousands of members all believing in the testimony of Sun Myung Moon.L. Ron Hubbard created a new religion based on aliens and spaceships... you may have heard of it. The Church of Scientology now boasts 15 million members worldwide. This belief has spread much faster in a decade than Christianity had over the first few hundred years.There are dozens and dozens of examples all throughout history of people who made these claims and backed it up in letters to groups of people. Again, the "inspired" claims of New Testament are not new, nor are they unique.Belief is based on faith, not proof."